“Community protection cell”

effects in the daily life of black young people in Fortaleza

Abstract

The objective of this article is to problematize the psychosocial implications of the implantation of the Community Protection Cell (CPC) fron region of Greater Jangurussu, in the outskirts of Fortaleza, based on discursive productions of young blacks on such a security device. Methodologically, the research was carried out from a cartography as a research-intervention method. To answer these questions, Foucauldian studies on security devices, biopolitics and governmentality, anti-colonial studies on necropolitics and their implications on black bodies and peripheral territorialities were used. The results indicate that, guided by a necrobiopolitical rationality, such implantation of the Communitarian Protection Cell has involved the production of fear and the maintenance of the logic of control over racialized and historically stigmatized bodies and territories.